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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Offering an unparalleled level of detail, and spanning 600 pages, Black
Metal: Evolution of the Cult captures the progress of the genre, from
its infancy in the early eighties through to its resurrection in the
nineties and onwards to the fascinating scene we see today. Combining a
wealth of interviews with the key individuals involved with editorial
insight and iconic (and often unseen) photography this epic tome
examines the artistic, musical, spiritual development of the genre and
the creative work, ideologies and often colourful lives of some of its
most significant bands.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Intellect
is delighted to announce the development of Metal
Music Studies. This journal fills a gap in the market – there is no
other journal that has the sole focus of publishing research and theory that
uses metal music as its subject matter. This is an anomaly, as the number of
scholars working on metal music is large, and getting larger, as heavy metal
becomes a legitimate focus of postgraduate study and scholarly activity. Metal
music is a global phenomenon, with thriving scenes in every region. It is
ubiquitous in popular culture and a form of music closely associated with
modernity. Intellectual inquiry into metal music, then, is very relevant and
timely – and this journal will be the only one of its kind, bringing together
the metal music research that is currently otherwise published across a wide
range of journals: in musicology, in cultural studies, in sociology and in
other disciplines. As metal music studies grows as a truly interdisciplinary
subject field, this journal will be in a position to nurture and develop the
discipline.

International Society for
Metal Music Studies

The
journal will be the official journal of the International Society for Metal
Music Studies (ISMMS). ISMMS is a learned society for any scholar interested in
metal music, and for anyone involved in metal music who is serious about their
involvement: musicians, promoters, journalists, dedicated fans. ISMMS is
developing its structures over the next 12 months – watch this space!

Call for Papers

Metal Music Studies is
explicitly multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary: embracing both musicological
research and music theory about metal music, and social scientific and
humanistic research about metal music as a genre. We aim to receive
contributions from researchers and theorists aligned with the subject field of
metal music studies, but also researchers and theorists from other disciplines.
This journal will continue to draw on this inter-disciplinary approach,
nurturing the development of an academic combination of metal musicology, metal
cultures and metal studies. We would be happy to receive contributions from
scholars in the parent disciplines of music theory, musicology, aesthetics,
music technology, performance, art, policy studies, politics, cultural studies,
economics, pedagogy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, history, regional
studies, theology, philosophy, and natural sciences. The journal will accept
and commission shorter pieces from those involved in the metal music industry:
journalists, label owners and other industry insiders, managers, musicians and
fans.

Information on deadlines,
styles, word counts will appear on the MMS page on Intellect and in further
announcements through 2013 and 2014.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The words are barely discernible, thin, fragile shapes formed out of the hoarse yet bellicose raging of a desiccated, cadaverous throat, leprous, shredded; its death-rattled breath conveyed by the thundering vibrations of drums breathlessly pummelled without pause. There is no rock ‘n’ roll backbeat here, just a furious cacophony. Voice smashed and sliced open by explosions of percussion challenging the darkness, buzzing guitar chords rising and falling up the scale, lurching, striving like a swarm of ravenous insects dipping and swerving in the frozen, airless void, defying gravity, seeking the taste of death ... (From Scott Wilson (ed) Melancology: Black Metal and Ecology, Zero Books, forthcoming in 2013).

BLACK METAL THEORY

Information and archive site for black metal theory.

Not black metal. Not theory. Not not black metal. Not not theory. Black metal theory. Theoretical blackening of metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia.